Born in St Bees in 1982, Jessica moved
to Scotland to study sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art in 2000, going on to
do an MFA before completing a practice-led PhD in sculpture in 2013, funded by
the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Working with a wide variety of
materials from ceramics and marble to paint and digital collage, her practice
explores the mechanics of perception and a fallibility of observation
through an examination of the interaction between the visual and the tactile.

Her interest lies in how we
handle, interpret and navigate materials, objects and space and how this
process can define the shape of the body. The things she makes propose a
re-imagining of these definitions, offering an alternative shape to our
perception of things, using the simplicity of materials to explore the
complexity of the sensory body.